Yoast SEO Premium: social previews

Yoast · Intermediate ·🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ·9y ago

Key Takeaways

The video demonstrates the social preview feature of Yoast SEO Premium, showcasing how to customize the appearance of posts on Facebook and Twitter.

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[Music] I'm going to talk to you about the social previews in usio premium as you can see this is a rather long post with an image on up front a featured image set and some more things in the social preview you can see what this post will look like when shared on Facebook and on Twitter as you can see it uses is the featured image now to share the image on Facebook because that's what the yosio plugin will do by default if you don't set a specific image you can also set a specific image like this one and then it will use this image when shared on Facebook and you could set another one for Twitter by default Twitter will use the same one as Facebook if you remove this image it will fall back to the featured image if there is no featured image an image either it will grab an image from the post as you can see here this is the image you saw when we scroll down this shows you how this uh post will look on Facebook and on Twitter you can edit them here you can set the title and the description um just set it something like this is a cool post title and this doesn't have to be as SEO optimized as your normal title and your snippet would be so you can play with this a bit more more if you want to good luck [Music]

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Want to know what your posts will look like when shared on Facebook or Twitter? It's possible with the social preview feature of Yoast SEO Premium. Read more about this feature here: https://yoast.com/social-previews-yoast-seo-premium/
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The video teaches how to use Yoast SEO Premium's social preview feature to customize the appearance of posts on Facebook and Twitter, allowing for more control over how content is shared on social media. This feature is useful for optimizing content and improving engagement. By following the steps outlined in the video, users can create custom social media previews that accurately represent their brand and content.

Key Takeaways
  1. Install and activate Yoast SEO Premium
  2. Create a new post with a featured image
  3. Access the social preview feature in the Yoast SEO Premium settings
  4. Customize the title and description for Facebook and Twitter
  5. Set a specific image for Facebook and Twitter
  6. Preview and edit the social media previews
💡 The social preview feature in Yoast SEO Premium allows for customization of title, description, and image for Facebook and Twitter, providing more control over how content is shared on social media.

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